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Water, sanitation and health are the foundations on which humanity builds lives, livelihoods and economies. Without addressing these core elements in society, issues of poverty, malnutrition, education, inequality, environmental protection, ...

The Guidance Note on the development of action plans aims to help countries in translating the priorities identified through the self-assessment into actions. Specific Equitable Access Action Plans are needed ...

Coordination between the water, energy, food and environment sectors is fraught with difficulties at the national level and the complexity increases substantially in transboundary basins. The “nexus approach” to managing ...

This publication contains the results of the assessment of the water-food-energy-ecosystems nexus ─ essentially of intersectoral links, trade-offs and benefits ─ in the Alazani/Ganykh River Basin, shared by Azerbaijan and ...

Coordination between the water, energy, food and environment sectors is fraught with difficulties even at the national level, but the complexity increases substantially in transboundary basins where the impacts spread ...

Transboundary water cooperation is necessary to manage shared waters in an integrated and sustainable way. It has the potential to generate many significant benefits for cooperating countries, such as accelerated ...

The publication intends to compile, analyse and disseminate experiences, and thereby to demonstrate and illustrate important steps and lessons learned as well as good practices to take into account when ...

The UN-Water Transboundary Waters Thematic Priority Area, under the leadership of its co-coordinators UNESCO and UNECE, has organized a compilation of good practices in transboundary water cooperation and created an ...

This brochure is a summary of report “Strengthening Cooperation in Adaptation to Climate Change in Transboundary Basins of the Chu and Talas Rivers (Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan)”. The report was developed ...

The Protocol on Water and Health stresses the importance of involving the public in decision-making concerning water and health. Access to information and public participation are essential for building public ...

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The Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (Water Convention) was adopted in 1992 and entered into force in ...

National Policy Dialogues (NPDs) are the main operational instrument under the European Union Water Initiative in the countries of Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia. The objective of NPDs ...

This guidance is intended to assist the countries that are Parties to the Protocol on Water and Health in establishing and/or strengthening their detection and early warning systems, contingency plans ...

This booklet contains guidance on the policy related to water-related disease surveillance developed by the Task Force on Water-related Disease Surveillance established under the Protocol on Water and Health.
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Extreme weather events, including floods and droughts, are increasing in frequency and intensity. They affect the operation of water-supply, drainage and sewerage infrastructure, and the functioning of wastewater treatment plants, ...

The UNECE/WHO-Europe Protocol on Water and Health has been negotiated specifically to ensure, by linking water management and health issues, the supply of safe drinking water and adequate sanitation for ...

OUR WATERS: JOINING HANDS ACROSS BORDERS
The first Assessment of Transboundary Rivers, Lakes and Groundwaters has been carried out under the auspices of the Water Convention, under the overall leadership ...

Part One:Guidelines on Water-Quality Monitoring and Assessment of Transboundary Rivers.
Part Two: Recommendations to ECE Governments on Specific Measures to Prevent, Control and Reduce Groundwater Pollution from Chemical ...

Part One: Guidelines on the Ecosystem Approach in Water Management.
Part Two: Water-quality Criteria and Objectives.
Part Three: Prevention and Control of Water Pollution from Fertilizers and Pesticides.
Water Series No.1
ECE/ENVWA/31 ...